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Monday, October 05, 2015

Seattle Police Expand "Hate Crimes" Enforcement

A Seattle Police Department program targeting hate crimes is now being exported to other communities in the state.

The Department of Justice is, not surprisingly, taking notice with an interest in further expanding the program.

The "Safe Place" program, known for its rainbow decals and stickers, started in Seattle last spring.

While it is presented as creating a "safe place" for everyone, the primary focus is hate crimes against homosexuals.

Does the program create a "safe place" for everyone, or is it a further affront to those who do not embrace the homosexual agenda?

Seattle is exporting its "Safe Place" program to Vashon Island. The "Safe Place" program was started in Seattle last spring as a way to prevent and deal with hate crimes. The program is synonymous with the homosexual community and their rainbow symbols and colors. Decals, stickers, etc. promote the safe place environment.

Seattle Police Officer Jim Ritter joined King County Sheriff's Michelle Bennett to introduce the Island to the "Safe Place Program."

King 5 wondered why Vashon Island would be a target for hate crimes protection. "Vashon Island, known for its quaint shops and peaceful living, is not the first place you'd think of when it comes to hate crimes," they report.

Apparently King 5 is not the only one wondering about it.

Officer Ritter says, "I think some of the people on Vashon wondered why we were coming here."

Here's how Captain Bennett explains the program to businesses: "The responsibilities for you and your employees are to allow any victim of a crime, especially of a hate crime to call 911, and to allow them a safe place to stay until the police arrive."

That's great as long as the safe place is available to all---not only homosexuals.

Jim Marsh, executive director of the Vashon Island Chamber of Commerce, told King 5, "Until everybody feels safe we can't take safety for granted. If there is one or two people who benefit from this, that's great."

You would think pretty much everybody would already feel safe, because there has only been one "hate crime" reported in the past 2 years, and Vashon Island now has the highest percentage of homosexual couples in the state.

Bennett says that doesn't matter---"How many hate crimes go unreported?"--- "We want people to know they can report them and we will respond."--- "It doesn't mean the island is immune to intolerance."

This suggests that the real goal of the program is directed toward those whom the homosexual community feels are intolerant.

Over time we have learned that anyone who disagrees with their behavior and agenda are "intolerant."

Officer Ritter told the high school students he wants them to know "they don't have to tolerate biased behavior..."

I personally, do not now, nor have I ever believed anyone, for any reason, should be bullied.

This includes Christians, who, because of their deeply held beliefs in biblical teaching, do not accept the homosexual lifestyle---or their agenda, and because of their conscience cannot and will not affirm or celebrate the lifestyle.

In the "Safe Place" world, this constitutes both intolerance and bias.

There is not a stronger expression of intolerance than that of the homosexual community directed at biblical Christians who disagree with the behavior because of their deeply held biblical beliefs.

This move appears to be one more incremental step in the silencing of biblical Christians and conservatives who do not embrace the gay agenda.

Make no mistake. Homosexual activists, including Seattle's mayor and former lawmaker, have incrementally redefined marriage in regard to state law, while instituting laws meant to enforce their "new normal" for family, marriage and morality----regardless of what anyone else may believe.

The group who proudly wave the "Tolerance" banner, have come to be the most "intolerant."

They would rather put a Christian baker, florist or photographer out of business, than walk down the street a block and choose someone else who may not hold biblical beliefs.

Associated Press reported yesterday afternoon that "Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear's lawyers are using the words 'absurd,' 'forlorn' and 'obtuse' to describe the legal arguments a county clerk has used to avoid issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples."

If this is merely a "legal" matter as they claim, is it necessary to call the Christian woman's response absurd, forlorn and obtuse?

This would be the same Kim Davis who has already spent a week in jail, having been mocked and bullied by those who disagree with her biblical beliefs.

Davis' lawyer Matt Staver sent this out yesterday:

Gary,

Before the media knew that Pope Francis had a private visit with Kim Davis when he thanked her for her "courage" and urged her to "stay strong," the Pontiff had a stirring conversation with Terry Moran of ABC News. Aboard the Papal plane returning to Rome, he told Moran that conscientious objection is a basic human right, even for government officials:

"Conscientious objection is a right that is a part of every human right. It is a right. And if a person does not allow others to be a conscientious objector, he denies a right. Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right, a human right. Otherwise we would end up in a situation where we select what is a right, saying 'this right that has merit, this one does not.' It (conscientious objection) is a human right."

The ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent asked if that includes government officials as well, and the Pope reiterated that conscientious objection is a core human right: "It is a human right and if a government official is a human person, he has that right," Pope Francis affirmed.

Activists in the homosexual community, for the most part, do not seek mere "safety," they aspire to an environment where their behavior is affirmed and celebrated, and God's Word is either revised or eliminated from public discourse. And those who do not comply are punished by force of law under the guise of "hate."

This "intolerant" goal is advanced under the guise of "tolerance." And "fairness."

Not all homosexuals are activists. But among those who are, the following M.O. has become common:

They have adopted the following tactics with the goal of forcing their beliefs on society:

eliminating free speech by harassing and attempting to silence anyone who disagrees with them;

preying on children by indoctrinating and recruiting them into their lifestyle; particularly through public education;

imposing their beliefs on others through activist judges and lawmakers requiring that everyone actively promote homosexuality in every institution (schools, workplace, churches, etc.);

destroying marriage and undermining the traditional family in order to remove any moral standard of behavior;

intolerance toward anyone who does not willingly submit to their agenda;

fighting for a discriminatory and unconstitutional double standard of justice by demanding that crimes against homosexuals be punished more severely than the same crimes against heterosexuals through 'hate crimes' legislation; and

deceptively portraying homosexuality as a harmless and victimless behavior.

Be Informed. Be Vigilant. Be Discerning. Be Strong. Be Prayerful.

6 comments:

As a matter of conscience, I very much object to the state's using unauthorized power to promote human corruption, even as it blends it with matters of protection for all, which is to be common for all.

This really makes the county sheriff look like a pied piper.

They ought to take off their rainbow colors and simply put stickers on their cars that say, "In God We Trust", for God loves everyone the same and is impartial.He is for judgment and justice for all, without showing partiality, and there is no hypocrisy with him.

Do they mean it wasn't safe before? Are we all safer now? Are we all some how better off now, now that the vilest offenses are promoted, endorsed, financed, encouraged, and blessed?

And why should Bible believing Christians not believe that to be so? At least by three ways, if not by four, and hundreds, if not by thousands.

When the county sheriff's office becomes vile in the sight of many, I wonder what will happen to the crime rate. I thought they were supposed to be against crime.Dividing the county sheriff's office and the community isn't a good thing and that's what throwing themselves in with the homosexual agenda does among many things. It's destructive in so many ways. It's not what America needs.

It doesn't promote unity. It isn't for common good. Neither does it secure constitutionally protected rights, for the homosexual agenda is in direct conflict with those rights. It seeks to overthrow the constitution, as it seeks to undermine it's foundations.

So many it seems want to get rid of all Bibles and gospel related things, even prayer from schools, as if their desire to return to the Dark Ages is so great.

There is a brighter day for America. We just need to walk into it....together.

Can Barronelle Stutzman find a safe place? Safe from the hate crimes perpetrated on her by the likes of the State Supreme Court and Attorney General, no less?!! When those in power take to themselves the power to harass, who can "feel safe?"

Not so easy to stay sane these days with a crazy state and federal supreme court, and so few people in government that care. Less guns is not the answer. Jesus is the answer. Robbing congress of it's powers by runaway executive power is not the answer. Jesus is the answer. Taking away constitutional rights is not the answer. Return to sanity is the answer, and it will require a return to Christ to get there.

The courts need to return to the Bible. Judges are not to become oppressors or rejecters of righteousness.

When the Bible moves out, doesn't the enemy move in? When that happens, people get used for stealing, killing, and destroying.

Jesus is the answer, not less guns, not more power to a president, not re-defining marriage, or anything else.

Isaiah 16:4-7Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and hasting righteousness.We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye morn; surely they are stricken.

And so we do the same for America. It seems to be another repeat of history. Joy and gladness is taken away...(verse 10)